Rapture before the coming of the antichrist on August 30 (John Hagee) exposed and explained
A third of a million results for “Antichrist, August 30, 2016” on Google suggest the widespread belief that the end times will begin in 2016, but searching various linked sources reveals no explanation as to why the end times appear. antichrist on august 30. 30, despite the date on Hagee’s YouTube caption.
Hagee’s August date and the safety of a rapture first sounds like Harold Camping, but there are a dozen reasons to counter a pre-tribulation rapture that came from John Darby in the early 19th century. Here are a couple of examples.
The first was popularized by the “Left Behind” series of books and movies, in which Christians are supposedly taken to heaven. But if one reads the parallel passage in Luke 17:36,37, when Christ says that one will be taken, the disciples ask, “Where to, Lord?” and He replies: “Where the body is, there the eagles will gather.” (not taken to heaven, but supper of the vultures at the end of the world, Revelation 19:17.
Another example is the use of Paul’s statement about the second coming of Christ: “For the Lord will descend from heaven with a shout…with a trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive will rise again.” that we are left will be caught up…” 1 Thessalonians 4:16,17.
But most evangelical Christians don’t compare Paul’s other comment on this: it is “at the LAST trumpet, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible.” 1 Corinthians 15:52. There are seven trumpets, Revelation 8:6 that follow an earthquake in the previous verse and we haven’t seen that earthquake yet.
Earthquakes are happening all over the world, but the old lukewarm church of Laodicea ended in an earthquake that destroyed the city. America has lukewarm Christianity that is also materialistic as described in Revelation 3:15-21, but the deeper meaning of “knocking” at the door is an earthquake that will surprise preachers who are saying rapture first.
Hagee also believes that the Antichrist will arrive on August 30. The Antichrist may have more than one application.
#1. Antichrist can mean instead of Christ and for over 1000 years millions of people have trusted a religion that claimed to forgive sin and promise salvation, even being able to pray a person out of purgatory (a word not found in the Bible) for money. .
That system is riddled with child abuse and homosexuality, but most people shrug it off instead of “repenting” and “calling no one father” as Christ said. “Who can forgive sin but God?” This author once opened his house to an alcoholic priest for a week. The church eliminated the daily experience of Christians: no Bible study, prayer or testimony, represented by the table of bread, the altar of incense and the light of the candlesticks in the Holy Place of the sanctuary that show the experience of believers . Now it is the mass and the priest on Sunday or the confessional instead of the daily experience of a believer. He is the antichrist, instead of Christ.
Hagee thinks the coming antichrist will be shot in the head and miraculously recover, but the deadly wound has already happened with the Protestant Reformation and Napoleon’s capture of the pope who died in exile, also in Revelation 13. Hagee mentioned the number 666 of Revelation 13, but did not mention the Pope’s title, VICARIUS FILII DEI [vicar of the Son of God] since it adds up to 666 in Roman numerals (Google).
#two. There will probably be a Muslim leader who will rise up to claim the leadership to wipe out the infidels for a future Imam Mahdi, world ruler. This will be an obvious antichrist who will be conquered as Daniel 8 shows in the trampling of a militant Muslim ram with two broken horns. Gabriel said the vision is in the end time, so the Medes and Persians (in this proven vision) are now Iraq and Iran, but Hagee preaches peace and security for Jerusalem that doesn’t fit Zechariah 14. Their destruction may be the reason for the anger of the goat in Daniel 8.
#3. The imagery of Revelation 17 supports an antichrist papal leadership of the New World Order (NWO). A beast (government) is ridden by a harlot (unfaithful church) who has fornication with kings and is arrayed in gold (rich) and scarlet (color of cardinals), “mother of harlots” (mother church-her daughters no longer her). protest), sitting on seven hills (Rome) and drunk with the blood of saints. Most of the history books have been whitewashed to no longer reveal the 50-100 million who died as martyrs for what they believed. The United States was founded by Christians who risked their lives to flee the Old World in search of freedom here.
In the context of an end of 7 years, near the end of the NWO beast power for 42 months (Revelation 13), Satan will appear as Jesus, to perform miracles and deceive the entire world. Only a small minority will oppose the New World Order and point out that it brings God’s plagues (chapter 14), but those who do can be forgiven when Christ comes and “every eye will see” it, Revelation 1.
